"’I did not want my tombstone to read, ‘She kept a really clean house.’ I think I’d like them to remember me by saying, ‘She opened government to everyone,’" Richards said shortly before leaving office in January 1995."
Yet, in her support of the death penalty and a few other ways, she may also have been one of the last conservative Texas Democrats.
UPDATE And on it goes, days of Texas news media stories about her and the state funeral to come.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 